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Early English Christmas at Kecoughtan Marker, WY-108

From 30 Dec. 1608 to 5 Jan. 1609, Capt. John Smith and his party of 27 men, their journey from Jamestown to Werowocomoco temporarily halted by “extreme wind, rain, frost, and snow,” lodged with the Kecoughtan Indians at their town near here. The group celebrated Christmas with the natives with “plenty of good oysters, fish, flesh, wildfowl, and good bread.” Smith later wrote that the English were “were never more merry” and “never had better fires in England than in the dry, warm, smoky houses of Kecoughtan.”